The Queensland Premier says she stands by the police service, despite not yet reading a Federal Court judgment that police were unlawfully discriminatory in responding to a 2004 death in custody on Palm Island.

An Indigenous activist wins part of his racial discrimination suit against the Queensland Government and Police Commissioner over their handling of the 2004 riots on Palm Island, with a court finding police acted with "impunity".

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill apologises in State Parliament to members of the LGBTIQ community who have been discriminated against because of legislation, citing the case of a British man who died in the state but his marriage was not recognised.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill is set to issue a formal apology to the state's LGBTIQ community in the State Parliament today, but some community members say this needs to be followed by changes to discriminatory laws.

Australia's first Muslim woman elected to Federal Parliament has spoken out about the racial abuse she receives.National MP Andrew Broad then told Anne Aly about his own plight... of getting wedgies at school.

An Aboriginal woman who lodged a racial discrimination complaint against Australian newspaper cartoonist Bill Leak says she dropped the case because she did not think he was going to cooperate with the conciliation process.

With a growing number of single-sex schools in Australia converting to co-ed, Samantha Selinger-Morris looks at how attending gender segregated schools impacts students' emotional wellbeing and worldview.

WA Attorney-General Michael Mischin indicates he has the support of the Premier over his plan to expunge all historical homosexual convictions, as gay rights activists herald the move a "step towards equality".

Thousands of gay and bisexual men in the United Kingdom who were convicted of crimes under sexual offence laws which have now been abolished will be eligible to be pardoned thanks to the so-called Alan Turing Law.